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Messages between Lord Sedwill and Sir Christopher Wormald were shown to the COVID inquiry. Sir Christopher is still the most senior civil servant at the Department for Health and Social Care.
Sir Christopher Wormald remains the permanent secretary in the Department of Health and appeared before the inquiry on Thursday.
Giving evidence to the Covid inquiry, ex-deputy Cabinet Secretary Helen MacNamara painted a grim picture of the 'macho' culture in Downing Street early in the pandemic.
The Covid inquiry is hearing about people in Downing Street during the pandemic who helped the government make decisions
Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former chief adviser, made a series of claims in his witness statement handed to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.